Results of the Health Care Bill: My Opinion

I believe that we, in the United States should look carefully at the model of socialized medicine we can see clearly in Great Britain that we can see in their National Health Service. The Brits are now in a great controversy with their elections coming up on May 5. They are seriously considering revamping their health service because their cancer survival rates are lagging behind the rest of Europe and especially far behind those rates in the United States. The Conservative Party is proposing pumping £1 billion into the system to improve access to cutting-edge cancer treatments. The Tories are proposing allocating £200 million to pay for drugs that have been prohibited or controlled by Britain’s’ rationing bureaucracies, thereby giving doctors more latitude in prescribing. The Labour government wants to avoid both of these measures. What does all this mean? The Brits are unhappy with their medical and treatment options for cancer.

So…what can we learn from this? I believe that the new American health care bill will result in one of two likely outcomes. The first, I will outline below; the second I will post on my blog next:
1)There will be a mixture of outcomes in America. Many people will be happy with the new services resulting from the new law. Some will be unhappy, particularly older people; but, overall, the positive effects will override the negative outcomes; and a majority will want to keep the services.
2)The costs of the program will go out the overhead.
3)Republicans will paint the program in such an unfavorable light that they will sweep into control of the government.
4)Then, the Republicans will refuse to fund the services adequately.
5)Services will deteriorate; and controversy will cover the whole program.
6)Democrats will come back into power, raise taxes, and borrow more money from abroad to fund the program.
7)Republicans will return to power.
8)Etc., etc. The cycle will continue.
I believe this is the worst outcome of the new law. Follow the next blog post to see the alternative.